Review - David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition – The Complete Columbia & HMV Recordings
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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A Gardener’s World : Flowers in Song
It’s appropriate that Alessandro Fisher’s debut on Rubicon should be a recording of a recital he gave at Wigmore Hall...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2024
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'Retrospect'
Norman Del Mar’s version of In Windsor Forest (the cantata that Vaughan Williams compiled from his opera Sir John in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024
TOSTI 'Sogno'
Italian-born Sir Paolo Tosti KCVO (1846-1916) was the toast of Victorian England, singing teacher to the royal family and the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024
STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Asmik Grigorian)
Asmik Grigorian is undeniably one of the most exciting operatic talents on the scene today, as formidable performances as Salome,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024
'Richard: Strauss & Wagner'
Nearly three years after I welcomed his fine disc of Strauss songs built around the humorous Krämerspiegel, Op 66 (7/21),...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024
STANFORD ‘Cushendall – Irish Song Cycles’
Top billing on the booklet cover of this latest and most welcome Stanford release from Somm goes to the 1910...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024
SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Klaus Florian Vogt)
Heldentenors have a surprisingly respectable recorded history in the most introspective of Schubert lieder, and Klaus Florian Vogt has the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024
Angela Gheorghiu: A Te, Puccini
The discovery of a lost Puccini song might prompt shrugs from those who don’t know the composer actually wrote any....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024
MOZART Requiem (Jansons)
Mariss Jansons recorded the Requiem in concert in Amsterdam a little under six years before this Munich performance, with two...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024
LASSUS 'The Alchemist' Vol 1
For lovers of 16th-century music there can be few nuts harder to crack than the Magnificat settings of Lassus. There...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Debussy in Context (Edited by Simon Trezise) | Book Review
In our current dark times we need Debussy as much as ever. And this book is a perfect way in if you...
Replay: The bel canto violin of Alfredo Campoli, plus Madeleine de Valmalète, Monique Haas, Emanuel Feuermann & Alfred Dubois
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Box-set Round-up: November 2024 (Prêtre, Celibidache, Jansons)
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
Review - Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition - Complete Opera Recordings
Rob Cowan dives into Warner’s second volume of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recordings
Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound (by Kate Kennedy) | Book Review
It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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